my blog photos are disappearing -- what did I do?

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  1. AmyL

    AmyL New Seed

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    I was looking at my blog last night and I noticed that pictures from March have disappeared and are replaced by a white box with an X.

    I am using Photobucket. I haven't deleted the photos from that site, and I don't think I moved them. Is there a time limit for how long photos stay on the blogs? Can I go back and redo the link?

    Thanks in advance for any help.
    Amy
     
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  3. zuzu's petals

    zuzu's petals Silly Old Bat Plants Contributor

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    Oh my, [​IMG] the dreaded little red x.

    Amy, any little change, resizing even renaming a picture at Photobucket,
    will break the link.

    Yes you can fix it, I've had to go back and edit blog and forum posts
    to reload pictures just because I corrected spelling errors at Photobucket. ;)
     
  4. Frank

    Frank GardenStew Founder Staff Member Administrator

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    Actually to my knowledge PhotoBucket dropped the ball on this one. When I logged into my account there a few days back I noticed that any images were not in a sub-folder were deleted. Disappointing. They have been making a lot of changes recently (they were bought by MySpace a few days ago also).

    So I think that's what happened here Amy, it was more than likely not your fault. Also just to clarify the blogs has no time limit on images ;)
     
  5. zuzu's petals

    zuzu's petals Silly Old Bat Plants Contributor

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    Yikes!! Do you mean to say, Frank, that you lost everything on your entry page,
    (or whatever you call it)???

    If that happened to me I'd be devastated!
     



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    Frank GardenStew Founder Staff Member Administrator

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    Yep that's what happened to me Zuzu. Good thing I use sub-folders quite a lot :eek:
     
  7. toni

    toni Mistress of Garden Junque Staff Member Moderator Plants Contributor

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    I have just been putting everying into one album since they are all pictures of garden related things and they are all still there. I still have them all in my folder on the computer so I can replace them if they get deleted but I suppose I had better start moving them into folders on photobucket.
     
  8. zuzu's petals

    zuzu's petals Silly Old Bat Plants Contributor

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    I have over 1000 items in my main album,
    I wouldn't mind moving them into sub-albums,
    but that would break :eek: A LOT of links.

    What I don't understand is why PB/MySpace would care how I organize my albums!?!

    Frank, do you think it was intentional, or just a glitch?

    Maybe since the same thing didn't happen to me when they made these changes . . .
    . . .
    [​IMG] maybe it won't happen.
     
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    Frank GardenStew Founder Staff Member Administrator

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    Somehow I would say glitch Zuzu because if it actually was an intentional change it would be lunacy. I think I had about 10 images not in a folder so maybe a decision was made to cull any images outside of a folder in an account with less than, say X images outside of a folder. The reasons could have been they could save LOTS of storage space this way as these would probably be unused accounts anyhow. But this is a conspiracy theory :)

    I say honestly DON'T WORRY :smt023
     
  10. zuzu's petals

    zuzu's petals Silly Old Bat Plants Contributor

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    Okay, [​IMG] I'll try not to panic,
    but my main album is where I keep all of my "personal" emoticons
    and you know I'm seriously smiley dependent. [​IMG]

    If I had to go cold turkey, [​IMG] it could kill me!!
     
  11. AmyL

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    Thanks for the info. It doesn't look like I lost any photos, so as time permits, I'll reload my blog pages.
     
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    Why Gardenstew, you had me In A Stew. I went and put all my photobucket photos on a cd to be on the safe side. 8)
     
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    Frank GardenStew Founder Staff Member Administrator

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    Remember.... back up is your friend :D
     

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